pyral Error "pyral.context.RallyRESTAPIError: SSL certificate verification failed"

Question

Attempting to access rally1.rallydev.com through the Web Services API v2.0 with pyral 1.1.1 and ActivePython 2.7.10.12 (ActiveState Software Inc.) from behind a corporate file wall. I receive the error “pyral.context.RallyRESTAPIError: SSL certificate verification failed”

Using Code with ssl: 

    rally = Rally(server, user, password, workspace=workspace, project=project)

Receive:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\QvaleL\Documents\Eclipse Workspace\Extract Rally Data\PullRallyUS - Working.py", line 26, in <module>
    rally = Rally(server, user, password, workspace=workspace, project=project)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyral\restapi.py", line 228, in __init__
    self.contextHelper.check(self.server)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyral\context.py", line 216, in check
    raise RallyRESTAPIError(problem)
pyral.context.RallyRESTAPIError: SSL certificate verification failed



Using Code to turn off SSL:

 rally = Rally(server, user, password, workspace=workspace, project=project, verify_ssl_cert=False)

Receive:

C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py:791: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html
  InsecureRequestWarning)
404 Response for request
('Connection aborted.', BadStatusLine("''",))

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\QvaleL\Documents\Eclipse Workspace\Extract Rally Data\PullRallyUS - Working.py", line 25, in <module>
    rally = Rally(server, user, password, workspace=workspace, project=project, verify_ssl_cert=False)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyral\restapi.py", line 228, in __init__
    self.contextHelper.check(self.server)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyral\context.py", line 216, in check
    raise RallyRESTAPIError(problem)
pyral.context.RallyRESTAPIError: 404 Target host: 'rally1.rallydev.com' doesn't support the Rally WSAPI

installed Python Packages

c:\>pip list
   certifi (2016.2.28)
   pip (8.1.1)
   pypm (1.4.3)
   pyral (1.1.1)
   pythonselect (1.3)
   pywin32 (218.3)
   requests (2.9.1)
   setuptools (5.2)
   virtualenv (1.11.6)

Answer 1

Solution is to export the environment variable https_proxy=[your https proxy-server_IP:port] within your environment or through the Python program. To export from within the Python program use the following command syntax with [your https proxy-server_IP:port]:

os.environ['https_proxy'] = '100.100.101.200:8080'